Carriage or wagon spring.



No. 698,6". Patented Apr. 29, I902.

J. WILLIAMS.

CARRIAGE UR WAGON SPRING (No Model.)

[7/ frwezzr UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WILLIAMS, OF GOWERTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN REES, OF

SWANSEA, ENGLAND.

CARRIAGE OR WAGON SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 698,611, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed May '7, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN WILLIAMS, Wagon builder and repairer, a'subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Westward Ho, Gowerton, B. S. 0., in the county of Glamorgan England, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in and Relating to Carriage and Wagon Springs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the draw-bar springs of carriages and wagons, and has reference to the buckles used for clamping the laminated plates of such springs together. The said invention refers more especially to improvements on the buckle in which the side cheeks of the buckle are bent or lapped over at each end, so as to form a double thickness where the drawbar pin passes through. Now. it has been found in practice that the said bent-over ends were liable to become distorted or broken by the pressure of the spring upon them; and the object of my invention is to overcome this difliculty. For this purpose instead of bonding over the ends of the plates forming the checks to provide a double thickness or projecting portion for the distance-pieces to bear against I form the said projecting portions by means of separate plates welded to the inner sides of the said side cheeks or plates, thus providing strong and efficient side cheeks and obviating the liability of the same being distorted or broken.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the improved 0 to bear against. "distance-pieces pass through holes in the plates at close to the plates or abutments b Serial No. 59,145. (No model.)

are the separate plates welded to the inner 40 sides of the plates at to form the projecting portions or abutments for the distance-pieces The screwed ends of the and are fitted with the nuts d and split pins for clamping the checks to the spring-plates in the ordinary manner.

e is the rivet pin or bolt, which passes through holes in the distance-pieces and 5c spring for holding them together.

By 7 means of my invention I provide a stronger and more etficient buckle than those hitherto in use.

Having. now fully. described the nature of my said invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In buckles for carriages and wagons the combination of the side cheeks 0., plates 19,

distance-pieces 0, nuts d, and rivet pin or JOHN WILLIAMS.

Witnesscs:

HAROLD SCHLESWICK, JOSEPH ARCHIBALD NEWBOULD. 

